HMS by the Numbers FY 2020
Leadership
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
HMS By the Numbers
- Total faculty: 12,202
- Tenured and tenure-track faculty on the HMS campus in 11 preclinical departments: 193
- Voting faculty on campus and at affiliates: 6,487
- Full-time faculty on campus and at affiliates: 10,175
- Nobel Prizes (cumulative) in Medicine or Physiology, Peace: 10 prizes, 16 recipients
- National Academy of Medicine members (current): 165
- National Academy of Sciences members (current): 85
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (current): 40
- Investigators: 36
- Faculty Scholars: 3
- Professor: 1
- Total MD students: 702
- Total PhD students: 888 (886 HMS, 2 HSDM)
- MD-PhD students: 192: basic sciences 164, social sciences 28 (total included in MD and PhD counts)
- Total DMD students: 142
- Total master's students: 457 (410 HMS, 47 HSDM)
- Total DMSc students: 36
- Trainees: (residents and postdoctoral fellows): 8,839
Students
Entering MD students, 2021
- MD (includes 16 MD–PhD students): 164
- Applicants: 8,002
- Admitted: 222 (2.8%)
- Men: 79 (48%)
- Women: 83 (51%)
- Different identity: 2 (>1%)
- Underrepresented in medicine (African American, Native American, Hispanic, Mexican American): 38 (23%)
- Asian: 58 (35%)
Additional entering students, 2021
- PhD: 133
- DMD: 35
- Master's: 284 (270 HMS, 14 HSDM)
- DMSc: 11
- Additional joint-degree programs: MD-MAD, MD-MMSc, MD-MBA, MD-MPH, MD-MPP
- Medical school living alumni: 10,822 (MD and master's)
As of September 2021
MD Financial Aid (Fiscal Year 2020)
- Average scholarship: $54,129
- Students receiving financial aid (excluding MD–PhD students): 76%
- (2019-20) Students graduating with loans: 110
- (2019-20) Average loan debt at graduation: $99,376
- Range of debt (Class of 2020): $2,394–$282,144
Tuition and Fees (2019–2020)
- Tuition: $63,400
- Fees: $4,978
Tuition and Fees (2020–2021)
- Tuition: $64,984
- Fees: $5,234
As of June 2020
Harvard Medical School
Dean's Report 2021
Read the FY 2021 Dean's Report